ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I30-I5A › I46 Cardiac arrest › I46.2
I46.2
Cardiac arrest due to underlying cardiac condition
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Cardiac arrest due to underlying cardiac condition
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from I46 Cardiac arrest
Excludes2 - not included here
- cardiogenic shock (R57.0)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Asystole
- Death > cardiac
- Stoppage > heart
- Standstill > cardiac
- Cardiac > death, sudden
- Arrest, arrested > heart
- Standstill > ventricular
- Paralysis, paralytic > heart
- Arrest, arrested > circulatory
- Arrest, arrested > cardiorespiratory
- Arrest, arrested > cardiac > due to > cardiac condition
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I46.8 | Cardiac arrest due to other underlying condition | Valid |
| I46.9 | Cardiac arrest, cause unspecified | Valid |